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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

Barry Commoner

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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Air Epa Method Progress
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Agriculture People Sick
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Agriculture Answers Energy
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Inheritance Law Technology
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

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